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Month: April 2022

Pascal’s Mugging

April 13, 2022 SpoilersBelowLeave a comment

I was thinking about dumb logic things today. So, one dumb thing is Roko's Basilisk. It's the dumb rationality obsessed nerd thing where the odds of us being in a computer simulation are less good than us being in reality, so we should give money to a loser who promises to build AI god. The [...]

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